Dr Liam Fox up.

So, he's finally resigned. Why the wait?

Because, like the rest oif this contemptable coalition Government he is a duplicitous liar and charlatan who simply is in it for little more than himself and what he can screw out of us, the rest of the Country. He wasn't palying the honourable game, he was just trying to get away with it, hoping it would blow over quickly and enough to allow him to slink back into the warm dark hole that he seems to frequent.

How many trips did he go on with his 'best' mate? Too many in my book, because we were the mugs paying for it one way or another.

I've no problem if one man wants to go on holiday with another man, if that is their inclination or bent, I have no problem with a business man taking along a partner or friend if it doesn't affect me or mine or cost me in some way. But this is a senior politician, a man of the Government who is supposed to represent me [and you], whatever he does that smacks of lying, deceit or decpetion he does against me [and you].

Like the rest of the shits in this sham full, shameful coalition they are only in it for one reason themselves.No more sleaze and corruption? Sorry Mr Cameron, you'll have to pull the other one a bit harder.

"Labour left us with a huge debt and you must tighten your belts to allow us to save you from the horrible Labour party doing it to you all over again".......Lies! all of it, the debt may have been there but it doesn't seem to stop this coalition from finding money whenever they need it to suit their contemptable purposes.

"Gordon Brown and Labour created this recession".......No they didn't it was a world-wide recession and every country was/is going through it, of course the Coalition shits publicly recognise that now.Why? Because, they can't get us out of it.... and just like Liam Fox they have to finally have to deal with the fact that they lied.

Good riddence to bad rubbish, the sooner the rest go down the same path the better.

RIP Jeffery Catherine Jones

A great artist who died today.

He was the co-founder and member of 'The Studio' collective of artists along with Mike Kulata, Barry Windsor-Smith and Bernie Wrightson. They were/are probably some of the most influential artists of their times but in terms of the so-called art establishment they were also hugely critically under-ratednot only as artists but as influencing artists and essentially developing 'The Studio' into a school of art style and technique.

I'm lucky enough to have some of JCJ's artwork, I will look at it tonight and raise a glass to a very talented artist, who's work and influence will live on.

RIP Jeffery Catherine Jones

Pat Kent

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50 years of manned spaceflight
If you've read some of my previous posts you will know that I am a fan of the band Jethro Tull as well as being a bit of a comic art buff who's fasicnated by space travel and human endeavour in that field.

So, following on from my last post, and using my latest toys and fascination for video editing here's my small tribute to the American manned space programme in the 50th year of manned spaceflight, coupled with Tull's 'For Michael Collins. Jeffrey and Me', a song which has always interested me in its presentation of what must be one of the lonliest moments for any individual in human history.

The video extracts taken from the TV Drama 'Moonshot' and others pieces of news film.

It's dedicated to Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin and the first solo astronauts and cosmonauts, it's inspired by youtube poster and Tull fan 'whitershadeofpale' [Kevin] for his great video montages and to Tull for producing one of my favourite pieces of music.

I did it for the Tull chat board at www.thejethrotullboard.proboards.com

Hope you enjoy watching and listening to it as much as I enjoyed putting it together from the various masterful film and audio elements that make it.

50 years ago, a solitary Russian sat aloft what could best be described as a missile with a human warhead. What he did exploded the world we lived in up to that time.

Yuri Gagarin became the first human to fully orbit the earth in a man-made spacecraft. Because he was Russian and the world was in the depths of an east-west cold-war, his journey sparked fear, global war theories and probably the greatest adventure man was ever to embark upon.

I was 5 years old when Gagarin went into space, it didn't matter to me whether he was Russian or not, it sparked my imagination and my love of 'space'. I grew up in the 'space race' years and consumed every bit of it, from the world of my astronaut heroes through fanastic science fiction and even tales of aliens and UFO's.

These men and women space travellers were real heroes, pioneers and explorers who took our knowledge to new arenas and who were taking the human race to new realms.

If only we had politicians with foresight and that sort of courage now to see what that potential could bring to a drab, gray world full of strife and little hope.

Our world needs adventure, it needs explorers, it needs to journey out beyond it's small, blue home. We need to expand our place in the universe.

I've said it before, but my thanks to Gagarin and all those who preceded him and those that followed for making my world full of their adventure. If only the current crop of weak-willed politicians that are killing the space programme had their spirit, courage and detemination; if they had, we would already be standing on Mars and looking to our next goal.

Instead we sit in the gutter and stare at the stars, such a shame, when we could be amongst them.